ATP Tour

Nicknames are “Pasha” or “Pav”…Speaks Russian and English, plus some Spanish and French…Moved to Canada with his family aged six…Father, Andres Marco, is a tennis coach, who used to own a tennis academy in Marbella, Spain…Mother, Elena, is an engineer, who emigrated from Russia into Canada in 1999…Sister, Anastasia, is a business student, who finished high school two years ago ahead of her peers…Started playing tennis aged eight-and-a-half with his parents on public courts in Toronto… Started tennis lessons aged nine at a local tennis school, using a racket strung with metal wire, and was instructed to play with a two-handed forehand and backhand…Aged 11, he stopped doing Martial Arts classes and swimming in favour of tennis…Lived with his father and trained in Marbella, Spain, from ages 13 to 18… As a junior, won under-14, -16 and -18 Canadian National titles, competed in all the junior Grand Slams and the 2010 Singapore Junior Olympics….Favourite surface is red clay and slow hard courts…Considers his forehand and serve to be his favourite shots…Favourite tournament is US Open…Idols growing up were Pete Sampras, but also looked up to Marat Safin, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal…Hobbies include go-karting, paintball, walks in parks, watching TV, reading and spending time with family and friends…If he wasn’t a tennis player he would be involved in business world because "being your own boss is awesome".